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Written by John Weeks
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April 16, 2007 mailing - Issue #25April 16, 2007
Individual chiropractors
and the Congress of State Chiropractic Associations call for merger of the ACA and ICA ...
Nurses pushing the United Nations via the Nightingale Campaign to make 2011-2020 the UN Decade for a Healthy World
... Join holistic nursing at their June meeting ... WebMD taps Joseph
Pizzorno, ND, as their integrative medicine lead ... Access a fascinating, if controversial, taped talk by Community
Acupuncture Network co-founder Lisa Rohleder, LAc on the economics of
acupuncture practice. More ...
April 16, 2007
The selection
of the new director of the NIH National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine may be the most important decision for integrative
medicine in the next half decade. The Integrator has weighed in on the topic. Now Integrator advisor Bill Benda, MD, takes another look at its importance. Benda wonders if NCCAM has drifted in recent years from the
"philosophical beauty and awe that comes from awakening to a new
perspective for the first time" and offers ideas on what might right
its course.More ...
April 10, 2007
The Integrator closely followed efforts of advisor Michael Levin, a past executive for both dietary supplement and Big Pharma companies, to hold the New York Times accountable for allowing gross overstatements regarding the deaths and harm
associated with the appropriate use of dietary supplements. It turns out
Levin was in good company when his protests fell on deaf ears. A correction letter by US Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) was also turned down by the Times. Their rejected letter is printed here. More ...
April 10, 2007
Happily,
IN-CAM, the Canadian complementary and alternative medicine research network, has taken on the important work of
developing a data base on outcomes tools that fit with complementary an
integrative approaches .. Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine announced dates and place for its second research conference ... The Massage Therapy Foundation and American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
each are offering awards to stimulate research by practitioners ... 10 years after
the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture, the Society for
Acupuncture Research will reflect on advances, direction at it 2007 conference. More ...
April 10, 2007
In the best of all
worlds, or even a reasonably acceptable one, the consumer-driven movement
toward use of alternative, complementary and integrative medicine
approaches would be actively considered in any effort to promote
"patient-centered" care. But within the course of a week last
month, New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer first announced his vision for patient-centered care for his constituents. Then he put the leaders of an emerging New York State
"CAM Office" on notice that they had a week to clean out their desks. Here is the story of the departed. The Integrator
has contacted Governor Spitzer's budget office but hasn't yet a
response on his actions. The Governor's response will be added here
later. More ...
April 9, 2007
Integrator advisor and (sometimes ire-filled) Irishman Bill Manahan, MD, read Money is Not the Cure: Controversies
in Healthcare
by Seymour Handler, MD in the week before St. Patrick's Day. Manahan,
faculty member at the University of Minnesota medical school and
past-president of the American Holistic Medical Association, has four
decades of practice informing his observations about US healthcare. So
on the eve of St. Patrick's Day he was compelled to compile a short
list of those medical procedures and test most likely to inflame his
ire due to their lack of supporting evidence. More ...
The Integrator interview
with Pamela Snider, ND, on the maturation of the CAM professions
stimulated Sherman Cohn, JD, former Watergate lawyer and a professor at
Georgetown University, to question whether the discussion of a "third
way" downplayed legal risks ... Then John Kepner, the executive
director of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, which
commissioned the series of Integrator articles which led to the Snider
interview, took the time to walk through some hanging questions, for
the emerging field of Yoga therapy, on which Snider touched in the
interview. More ...
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Integrator Advisor Speaks: Benda on the Selection of the New NIH NCCAM Director
